Summary
Shmuel Popper is a seasoned software engineering manager with 16 years of experience building low-latency, real-time systems across defense, telecommunications, advertising, and financial risk analytics. At Bloomberg he leads the MARS API area, translating complex multi-asset risk analytics into robust programmatic interfaces used by external clients. He has a proven track record managing distributed teams, mentoring engineers, and driving cross-team integration from C++ device-level systems to high-throughput backend services and PHP-based OTT products. An early open-source mobile maintainer, he authored widely used Android siddur apps with careful RTL Hebrew rendering and over 26,000 downloads, showing a blend of product focus and deep technical craft. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and technical leadership, he quickly learns new domains and tools to deliver reliable, production-grade software.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Yeshiva University
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Columbia University